the mirror of heaven and earth


 

The

non-action of the

wise person is not inaction.

It is not studied. It is not shaken by anything.

The sage is quiet because she is not moved, not because she

wills to be quiet. Her quietness is the mirror of heaven and earth,

the glass of everything. Emptiness, stillness, tranquility,

traceless, silence, non-action: this is the level of 

heaven and earth. This is the

perfect Tao.

 

Chuang Tzu

Chuang Tzu?

Zhuangzhi!

🪷

 

live for your center, not your senses

greatness lives among us

 

The five

colors blind the eye.

The five tones deafen the ear.

The five flavors overwhelm

the palate.

 

Fancy things

get in the way of one’s growth.

Racing here and there, hunting for

this and that—good ways to

madden your mind,

that’s all.

 

Relinquish what is without.

Cultivate what is within.

Live for your center,

not your senses.

 

Tao te Ching of Lao Tzu

Chapter 12 

 

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you are taking sides as you practice

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Mindfulness is not just

watching things coming and going.

As the Buddha said, when mindfulness becomes a

governing principle in the mind, it sees things that are unskillful

and it works toward getting rid of them. It sees things that are

skillful and works toward giving rise to them. It actively

gets involved in making things arise and

making things pass away.

 

So you are taking sides

as you practice. Hopefully, you’re taking sides

with the right side – right view and all the way down

to right concentration – because it really

does make a difference.

 

Thanissaro Bhikkhu

set an example of self-improvement

 

do not even do this non-doing

on this date a buddha was born

 

A monk asked Chao Chou,

“Does a dog also have the Buddha nature, or not?”

Chao Chou replied, ‘Mu.’ This Mu is not the Mu of yes or no;

it is not the Mu of true nonexistence. Ultimately what is it?

To reach that place from where Chao Chou said Mu

one must straightaway lay down

the entire body.

 

Do not do anything

(good or bad) and do not even do this

not-doing; then straightaway one reaches that place

where there is no concern for external affairs, that vast

and peaceful place where there are absolutely

no obstructing thoughts.

 

There, all thoughts

of the past are extinguished,

all thoughts of the future do not arise,

and all present thoughts

are void.

 

Taego Pou